The European Union on Monday sanctioned three officers of a Russian military intelligence unit accused of being behind a series of cyberattacks targeting Estonia in 2020.

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo shared insights at the World Economic Forum, suggesting that Russia could maintain its conflict against Ukraine for another year. He emphasized the importance of sanction packages targeting Russia's key sectors such as gas,

The European Commission on Tuesday proposed tariffs on additional farm imports from Russia and its ally Belarus, in a new effort to choke off revenues to fund Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The 27-nation EU has hit Russia with multiple rounds of sanctions in response to its all-out invasion of its neighbor in 2022.

European Commissioner for Economy Valdis Dombrovskis said Moscow must be made to “pay” for its nearly three-year-long war in Ukraine.

Energy ministers from Belgium, France and Spain, whose ports receive shipments from Russian LNG tankers, have insisted that very little of the gas arriving is used domestically and that most is piped on to other EU countries. In November, Germany ordered its state-operated import terminals to reject any Russian LNG cargoes.

The Coral Nordic tanker with a batch of LNG from the Cryogaz Vysotsk plant indicated the German port as the final point of arrival, but left for Belgium. The Russian project has come under US sanctions,

"The agricultural products affected by the new tariffs constitute 15 per cent of agricultural imports from Russia in 2023 that had not yet been subject to increased tariffs," the Commission said in a press release on Tuesday. "Once adopted by the Council, all agricultural imports from Russia will be subject to European Union (EU) tariffs."

“Belgium, together with the other EU member states, is doing everything possible to reach an agreement on the renewal of sanctions against Russia. We have been able to reach an agreement in the ...

The EU considers emergency options, including a 1944 Belgian law, to uphold sanctions against Russia as Hungary threatens to veto their renewal.

Russian official Alexander Grushko emphasizes revising NATO's 2008 pledge on Ukraine membership as key to achieving peace in the Russian war against Ukraine.

The European Commission proposed on Tuesday imposing tariffs on more agricultural products and certain nitrogen-based fertilisers from Russia and its ally Belarus to prevent a potential threat to EU food security.